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Why was I born with such contemporaries?" -- Oscar Wilde
Why You Can't Run When There's Trouble in the Office
Wiker's Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
William Safire's Rules for Writers: Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form....
Williams and Holland's Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
Wit, n.: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery .
.. by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-- Otto von Bismark...
With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?

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